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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Visual Impairments – Requirements for Student Vision Screening and Information (Atticus Act)"
+description: "Visual Impairments – Requirements for Student Vision Screening and Information (Atticus Act)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 570"
+citation: "Maryland SB 570 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Public Health", "Assessments", "Blind Persons", "Committees and Commissions", "Continuing Education", "Counties", "Data", "Disclosure", "Education", "Boards of", "Evidence", "Examinations", "Forms", "Health", "Health", "Department of", "Health Occupations", "Job Training", "Licenses", "Local Government Mandates", "Medical Assistance", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Notices", "Ophthalmologists", "Optometrists", "Parents and Guardians", "Private Schools", "Public Information", "Public Schools", "Records", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "Students", "Teachers"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bates"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-31"
+last_action: "2018-04-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c1b677c-6442-4708-8aae-24c4a286ad55"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB570&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "979c5c446242ef1f10eab27a8eece8ed9c8932e9f1e0037428d6f83d83ba3914"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
+---
+
+# Maryland SB 570 (2018) — Visual Impairments – Requirements for Student Vision Screening and Information (Atticus Act)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/bills/sb/sb0570f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bates — primary (person)
+- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
+- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Salling — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-31** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-31** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-04-02** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-02** Favorable with Amendments {364935/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-02** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-04-03** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-03** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-04** Rereferred to Ways and Means
+- **2018-04-05** Hearing 4/06 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-04-07** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-07** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-07** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
+- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 312 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6c1b677c-6442-4708-8aae-24c4a286ad55`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+